Type-writing machine



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G. H. LASAR. TYPE WRITING MACHINE.

Patented Oct. 28, 1890.

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G. H. LASAR. TYPE WRITING MACHINE.

No. 439,530. Patented Oct. 28, 1890.

F|G.V|l|- FIGJX- UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

GODFREY II. LASAR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,530, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed June 14:, 1889. Renewed October 4, 1890. Serial No. 367,056. (No model-) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GODFREY H. LAsAR, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Type-\Vriting Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure I is part in vertical section and part in elevation and illustrative of my invention. Fig. II is an enlarged detail View of the segment and a number of the type-bar-supporting blocks. Fig. III is a horizontal section taken on line III III, Fig. II. Fig. IV is a detail top view. Fig. V is a detail elevation. Fig. VI is a vertical section through three of the typebar-support-ing blocks, each block being formed to receive three type-bars; and Fig. VII is a vertical section through four of the type-bar-supporting blocks, each block being formed to receive four type-bars. Fig. VIII is a perspective view of the block shown in Figs. II and VII, looking from the right side. Fig. IX is a perspective view of the block shown in Figs. II and VII, looking from the left side. Fig. X is a perspective view of one of the blocks shown in Fig. VI. Fig. XI is a perspective View of the other block shown in Fig. VI. These last six figures are on an enlarged scale.

My present invention relates, and is somewhat similar in character, to the invention shown, described, and claimed in my Letters Patent No. 415,538, dated November 19, 1889. In that patent the invention relates to the means of mounting two type-bars in a single supporting block or bracket, so slotted and perforated as to form the proper bearings for the bars.

The invention can be carried a step farther and be applied to blocks or brackets adapted to hold three or four type-bars, and it is this that my present invention relates to; and to this end my present invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the carriage of a type-writer; 2, the finger-pieces; 3, the keys or levers 5 4, the type-bars; 5, the

rods connecting the levers to the type-bars, and 6 the main segment or frame of the machine. To these my invention does not relate.

7 represents blocks or brackets secured to the segment 6, preferably by means of screws 8, as shown in Figs. I, II, and III. Each block or bracket is provided with two short slots or openings 9, and with one or two long slots or openings 10. In Figs. VI, X, and XI, I have shown blocks or brackets having one or two of the slots or openings 10, according to the shape or form of the block or bracket. It is obvious that there might be but one of the slots or openings 9 and two of the slots or openings 10, or vice versa. The blocks or brackets shown in Figs. VI, X, and XI are each adapted to hold or support three of the type-bars at, and each block or bracket shown in Figs. VII, VIII, and IX is adapted to hold four of the bars 4.

11 represents holes or perforations for receiving the pivots of the type-bars, which fit in the slots or openings 9, and 12 represents perforations or openings for receiving the pivots of the type-bars that fit in the slots or openings 10. These perforations 11 and 12 are made from each side of their respective brackets, so that each is at right angles to the slots 9 and 10, through which they pass, so that the pins (shown in section in Fig. I) when inserted to connect the type-bars to the brackets would be exactly at right angles to the length of the type-bars. Thus the type-bars are made to operate or move accurately on their pivots.

By making the slots 10 longer than those at 9, I am able to apply this invention to brackets adapted to support three or four type-bars, whereas with the invention as described in the patent referred to I was only able to support two type-bars by each bracket. By extending part of the slots lower down than the others, as shown and stated, the lower row of perforations 12 are provided for, and these may be drilled from opposite sides of the bracket to get the radial position of the openings, as described in said patent.

I claim as my invention- 1. A type-bar-supporting block having radial slots of differentdepths to receive three or more type bars and perforated to receive the journal-pins of the type-bars, substantially as described.

2. A type-bar-supporting block having radial slots at difierent elevations for upper and lower type-bars and perforated to receive the journal-pins of the latter, substantially as described.

3. A type-bar-supporting block having a radial slot 9 at one elevation for an upper type-bar and a radial slot 10 at a lower elevation for a loWer type-bar, a perforation 11 for the pivot-pin of the upper type-bar, and a perforation l2 for the pivot-pin of the lower type-bar, substantially as described.

4. A type-bar segment divided vertically and obliquely into a series of supportingblocks having radial slots at different elevations for upper and lower type-bars and perper and lower type-bars, respectively, and.

perforations 11 and 12 at different elevations, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

GODFREY H. LASAR. Witnesses:

THOMAS KNIGHT, EDW. S. KNIGHT. 

